Titan High School is a diploma mill or legit high school?

Answer 1

Titan may very well (or it may not, who knows) offer a high school diploma which requires real work and is, therefore, technically credible on that score. However, Titan High School is NOT accredited. And based on how someone obviously from it keeps coming back here and deleting my words, I'd say it's probably a flat-out diploma mill, too. Credible and legitimate schools, even when they're unaccredited, don't engage in millish activity like deleting warnings like this from anti-diploma/degree-mill activists like me.

So, then, do not be fooled. Titan's alleged accreditor (CAOHS) is not approved by the US Department of Education (USDE), and at the primary and secondary education levels (K-12), only USDE tends to approve accreditors. If you look at the USDE official list of accreditors at...

http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Agencies.aspx

...you can easily see that Titan's alleged accreditor, CAOHS, is not listed there. At the K-12 level, pretty much only the primary/secondary-school-divisions of the six big USDE-approved "regional" accreditors do the accrediting in the US; and CAOHS is not one of the US's "regional" accreditors.

CAOHS, no matter what the person who posted below might claim, is NOT a USDE-approved accreditor. Period. Therefore, Titan High School's diploma, no matter how otherwise good it is, will likely not be worth the paper on which it is printed if presented to a potential employer, or to a college or university, as proof of high school education.

I don't know if the person who posted below is part of Titan, or is just a shill for Titan, or what. But be careful whom you believe in situations like this. It is very common for diploma- and/or degree-mills to create legitimate-looking web sites for bogus/fake accreditors, and then claim that their mills are accredited by them. Though I would need to more deeply research it to know for sure, something like that is quite likely what's going on in this case. Again, don't be fooled.

Now, all that said, please remember this: There are a great many completely legitimate private primary and secondary schools in the US which are not accredited. And a great many accredited US colleges and universities will honor their diplomas when presented by degree seekers. So just because a high school isn't accredited doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. I have no idea if Titan is any good.

But I do know this: Claiming a fake accreditor is fraudulent. If integrity counts as part of what makes any school "good," then Titan, by claiming to be accredited by the fake/bogus accreditor CAOHS, has demonstrated that it has no moral compass. That, alone, would be enough to send me off looking for a real online high school.

And there are many regionally-accredited online high schools in the US. Tons of them, in fact! My personal favorite in terms of pure raw quality is the one operated by University of Nebraska; but it's kinda' expensive compared with a great many of the others out there.

The same folks who operate Ashworth College used to operate a really nice little regionally-accredited online high school called James Madison High School; and Ashworth still operates a nice little regionally-accredited online high school, but it's no longer as inexpensive as it once was.

Penn-Foster College also operates a perfectly fine little regionally-accredited online high school.

Many US states are now offering regionally-accredited online high school programs which, as long as the student lives in said state, are very inexpensive... sometimes even free... like in California, for example. So be sure to check that out in your state, too.

And if you dig around enough (do some creative Googling), you'll find a ton of them out there... some of them very affordable. Just make sure, once you find one that interests you, to notice that it's regionally accredited; and then go to the accreditor's web site and verify the claim.

P.S. To the person who keeps coming here and deleting my words, that is against the rules, here. You can write what you want, but you must leave others' answers alone. Notice that I didn't delete yours (below), even though it's just riddled with lies. You can keep coming here and deleting this all you want, but I will just keep coming back and putting it back in again. It's a simple copy-and-paste process... takes just seconds. To help keep a young high school diploma seeker from being ripped-off by a mill like Titan, I can (and will) keep coming back here and re-inserting this text over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (I think you get the point)again for the rest of my life if I have to. We can do this as long as you want.

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY PRO-TITAN PERSON:

Titan accredited online High School provides students who not been able to complete their high school diploma for any personal reason, they now have an opportunity to earn a regular High School Diploma online. This virtual knowledge center is designed in such a way that anyone can easily apply for their high school diploma for free.

Titan High School online diploma provides students a fast online equivalency test, an opportunity to earn their regular High School Diploma. The high school equivalency test is completely free of cost and is designed in such a way that the students can learn from the test. Students may take the online diploma test as many times as they feel like completely free.

You are allowed pay your fee only if you have passed the test and are eligible to get a High School Diploma from Titan High School. This is not an online GED.

Titan High School is BBB Accredited School

Click below to see BBB ratings

Accreditation: (Nationally Accredited - Confirmed)

Who.is Website Background Check Information on the Website

(Follow the link below - Its a United States registered ownership)

Summary: Overall I am sure this is a perfect online high school diploma program for students who are looking for an accredited online high school diploma.. I have provided all the details above if you still want more info, let me know...

I am not affiliated with either party in the thread but I thought it important to point something out.

In the June 2010 BBB Alert newsletter, the BBB has revoked the accreditation privileges of Titan High School. I have no experience with Titan, but I do know that the BBB has revoked their membership and that action is generally taken when the member is not adhering to a standard of action deemed worthy of the BBB.

DesElms's response to the immediately above: Thank you for that information.

Just for the readers' clarification: BBB "accreditation" has nothing to do with educational accreditation. The BBB keeps files on businesses, whether or not they're members, it also allows businesses to become BBB members, and makes public all relevant information about any of all that. The BBB also offers "accredited business" status as an additional paid membership privilege; but such service uses the word "accredited" a little differently than that word is intended to mean in the world of education. The BBB is using "accredited" more like... oh... I dunno... "certified" or "approved" maybe... something like that. It has nothing to do with educational accreditation.

Al;so, the BBB never revokes "accredited status" or membership unless the business entity in question has REALLY screwed-up... shown itself to be bereft of ethics, and engaging in shoddy -- maybe even illegal -- business practices. So it's telling, indeed, that the BBB, on which Titan clearly relies for part of its referential credibility, has now abandoned it.

And to remind the reader, speaking of references Titan lists: Titan is NOT "nationally accredited," as I explain in detail in my original posting, above. And its so-called "background check" at the WHO.IS web site means NOTHING. In fact, it's not even a real background check. Rather, it's simply a WHOIS lookup web site, which shows the site visitor the contents of the public WHOIS record for Titan's domain name... which is no different than what's in any other domain name's public WHOIS record, as required by ICANN. In fact, the contents of Titan's WHOIS record is very telling, indeed, since it hides the true ownership of the domain. No legitimate school hides ANYTHING about who owns and runs it, where they can be found, etc. So, then, in trying to make itself look more credible, it actually further enforces just how NOT credible it is.